Photo #: NH 102051
Nansemond (Passenger-Cargo Steamer, 1896)
Photographed circa 1917-1918, after installation of guns. The
German steamship Pennsylvania was interned in the United
States during the first part of World War I. She was seized when
the U.S. entered the war in 1917 and renamed Nansemond
by the U.S. Shipping Board. Used by the Army during 1917-18,
she was commissioned on 20 January 1919 as USS Nansemond
(ID # 1395). The ship was decommissioned on 16 September 1919
and returned to the Shipping Board.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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